PALM-OIL TREE CIN N AMON-TSEE. I 1Q 



in keeping. There are three sorts of palm wine ; the first of which 

 is drank within a few hours after it is drawn from the tree, and 

 almost in its original state, when it has a moderate sweetness ; the 

 second and third sorts are obtained by fermentation, and the addition 

 of various herbs and roots. The first of these liquors will not 

 intoxicate, but the two latter will. Beside all these advantages 

 which are obtained from the cocoa-tree, the filaments which form 

 the outer coat of the nut are worked into threads, of which very 

 good cordage and cables are made. 



2. Palm-oil Tree. 

 Cocos butyracca. Linn, 



This is also a native of South America. The oil from which it 

 derives its specific name is produced by bruising and dissolving the 

 kernels of the fruit in water, without the aid of heat, by which the 

 oil is separated, and rises to the surface, and on being washed two 

 or three times, is rendered fit for use. When brought into this 

 country it is of the consistence of an ointment, and of an orange* 

 yellow colour, with little taste, and of a strong, though not disa- 

 greeable, smell. Its use is confined to external applications in 

 pains, tumours, and sprains; but it appears to possess very little, if 

 any, advantage over other bland oils. 



[Linn. Turton. Pantologia. 



SECTION XVII. 



Cinnamon Tree, 

 Laurus Cinnamomum. Linn. 



This valuable and useful bay-tree (for the generic term shews 

 the reader sufficiently that it belongs to the bay kind), rises above 

 twenty feet in height j the trunk extends about six feet in length, 

 and one foot and a half in diameter ; it sends oft numerous branches, 

 which are covered with smooth bark, of a brownish ash colour ; the 

 leaves stand in opposite pairs upon short footstalks ; they are of an 

 ovalish oblong shape, obtusely poiuted, entire, firm, from three to 

 five inches long, of a bright green colour, and marked with three 

 whitish longitudinal nerves ; the common peduncles grow from the 



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